id:			136863
accession number:	1961.35.a
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Portable Triptych Icon: The Resurrection and Anastasis, 1600s. Byzantium, Russia, Moscow?, Byzantine period, 17th century. Painted wood panel within enameled brass frame; unframed: 6.5 x 6 x 0.2 cm (2 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 1/16 in.); closed: 7.3 x 6.9 x 3.4 cm (2 7/8 x 2 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); open and extended: 7 x 19.1 cm (2 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Harry F. Stratton 1961.35.a

title:				Portable Triptych Icon: The Resurrection and Anastasis
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creation date:			1600s
creation date earliest:		1600
creation date latest:		1699
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Harry F. Stratton
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culture:	Byzantium, Russia, Moscow?, Byzantine period, 17th century
technique:	painted wood panel within enameled brass frame
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Painting
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measurements: Unframed: 6.5 x 6 x 0.2 cm (2 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 1/16 in.); Closed: 7.3 x 6.9 x 3.4 cm (2 7/8 x 2 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); Open and extended: 7 x 19.1 cm (2 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	Inscribed throughout in traditional Church Russian (Church Slavonic) with names of prophets, saints, etc.  Engraved on the outside of the brass frame is a cross with the symbols of the Passion, inscribed (top to bottom): The King of Glory; Jesus Christ; Victor; Lance (with which Christ was speared); Stick (tipped with acid to aggravate the wound); the initials R, B, M, L, G, G, standing for various personages represented in the paintings; and at the lower center, the Russian letters GA ("Golova Adama": Head of Adam).

A scrap of paper was found behind the center panel, but it is damaged and very difficult to read.  Professor A. Dean McKenzie of the University of Oregon, who translated the numerous inscriptions and identified the iconography of the panels, likewise examined the writing on the paper scrap and in a letter of January 29, 1979, said that it refers to two brothers: Ivan Dmitrievich, one of the brothers, apparently presented this icon as a gift to his younger brother.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1961)
	opening date:   1961-11-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1961)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, 1961: "Year in Review," cat., CMA Bulletin, (Novembeer 1961), cat. no. 69. repr. p. 243.', 'opening_date': '1961-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Harry F. Stratton (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 212, p. 480 - 481
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IMAGES

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